Table of Contents

1: Philip Clayton: Introduction
I.Religion and Science across the World's Traditions
2: Sangeetha Menon: Hinduism and Science
3: B. Alan Wallace: Buddhism and Science
4: Norbert M. Samuelson: Judaism and Science
5: John Polkinghorne: Christianity and Science
6: Seyyed Hossein Nasr: Islam and Science
7: John Grim: Indigenous Lifeways and Knowing the World
8: Willem Drees: Religious Naturalism and Science
9: Peter Atkins: Atheism and Science
II. Conceiving Religion in Light of the Contemporary Sciences
10: Bernard Carr: Cosmology and Religion
11: Kirk Wegter-McNelly: Fundamental Physics and Religion
12: Martinez Hewlett: Molecular Biology and Religion
13: Jeffrey P. Schloss: Evolutionary Theory and Religion
14: Susan Bratton: Ecology and Religion
15: Evan Thompson: The Neurosciences and Religion
16: Raymond F. Paloutzian: Psychology, the Human Sciences, and Religion
17: Richard Fenn: Sociology and Religion
18: Michael Lambek: Anthropology and Religion
III. The Major Fields of Religion/Science
19: John Hedley Brooke: Contributions from the History of Science and Religion
20: Robert A. Segal: Contributions from Religious Studies
21: Robin Collins: Contributions from the Philosophy of Science
22: Joseph Bracken: Contributions from Philosophical Theology and Metaphysics
23: Wolfhart Pannenberg: Contributions from Systematic Theology
24: Ted Peters: Contributions from Practical Theology and Ethics
25: Pauline Rudd: Simplicity - Complexity - Simplicity: The Perspectives of Spirituality
IV. Methodological Approaches to the Study of Religion and Science
26: Scott Atran: The Scientific Landscape of Religion: Evolution, Culture, and Cognition
27: Owen Flanagan: Varieties of Naturalism
28: David Ray Griffin: Interpreting Science from the Standpoint of Whitheadian Process Philosophy
29: Nancey Murphy: Anglo-American Postmodernity and the End of Theology-Science Dialogue?
30: F. LeRon Shults: Trinitarian Faith Seeking Transformative Understanding
31: Phillip H. Wiebe: Religious Experience, Cognitive Science, and the Future of Religion
32: Ken Wilber and Sean Esbjorn-Hargens: Toward a Comprehensive Integration of Science and Religion: A Post-Metaphysical Approach
V. Central Theoretical Debates in Religion and Science
`Science and Religion' or `Theology and Science'?
33: Michael Welker: Science and Theology: Their Relation at the Beginning of the Third Millennium
34: Philip Hefner: Religion-and-Science
Science, Theology, and Divine Action
35: Robert John Russell: Quantum Physics and the Theology of Non-Interventionist Objective Divine Action
36: Tom Tracy: Theologies of Divine Action
37: Wesley J. Wildman: Ground-of-Being Theologies
Panentheism and its Critics
38: Michael Brierley: The Potential of Panentheism for Dialogue between Science and Religion
39: Owen C. Thomas: Problems in Panentheism
Evolution, Creation, and Belief in God
40: Will B. Provine: Evolution, Religion, and Science
41: Alister E. McGrath: Darwinism
42: John F. Haught: God and Evolution
Intelligent Design and its Critics
43: William Dembski: In Defence of Intelligent Design
44: Robert T. Pennock: The Premodern Sins of Intelligent Design
Theologies of Emergent Complexity and their Critics
45: George F. R. Ellis: Physics, Complexity, and the Science-Religion Debate
46: Niels Henrik Gregersen: Emergence and Complexity
47: Michael Silberstein: Emergence, Theology, and the Manifest Image
48: Carl Gillett: The Hidden Battles over Emergence
Feminist Approaches
49: Lisa L. Stenmark: Going Public: Feminist Epistemologies, Hannah Arendt, and the Science and Religion Discourse
50: Ann Pedersen: Feminist Perspectives in Medicine and Bioethics
Human Nature and Ethics
51: Ursula Goodenough and Terrence W. Deacon: Emergence, Ethics, and Religious Naturalism
52: William B. Hurlbut: Science, Ethics, and the Human Spirit
VI. Values Issues in Religion and Science
53: Celia Deane-Drummond: Theology and Ecology
54: Holmes Rolston III: Environmental Ethics and Religion/Science
55: Ron Cole-Turner: Biotechnology and the Religion-Science Discussion
56: Nancy R. Howell: Relations between Homo sapiens and Other Animals: Scientific and Religious Arguments
57: Mary Midgley: Dover Beach Revisited: Concluding Reflections

About the Author

Philip Clayton is Ingraham Professor, Claremont School of Theology; Professor of Philosophy and Religion, Claremont Graduate University.

Reviews

This volume offers an impressive combination of breadth and clarity: breadth in the inclusion of experts from all the major world religions and scientific disciplines, and clarity in focusing attention on the similarities and differences among these diverse traditions and disciplines. Of particular interest is a section presenting pro and con views on eight issues currently debated in this burgeoning interdisciplinary field. Ian G. Barbour, Author of"When Science Meets Religion" ...compelling new perspectives upon a wide range of subjects in the humanities and social sciences under the topic of religion and science. Dr. Horst Jesse, European Legacy